An infant tragically died after he was run over by a truck on Saturday evening.

According to the Greenville County Deputy Coroner, the incident took place at a family gathering on Carman Trail in Travelers Rest, when the mother of 3 month old Jacob Joel Ford moved her manual transmission truck to let another vehicle leave. Once she had moved the truck she got out but the truck began to roll. She tried to stop it, but as she tried to open the door to get back inside the truck knocked her over. A young girl, who was holding Jacob, fell out of the vehicle to the ground and Jacob was crushed by the truck.

He was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital but died at 8.35 p.m. from blunt force trauma to the pelvis and torso.

Jacob had a twin brother, Noah Noel Ford, and the South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating to determine whether it was a mechanical failure with the truck that led to the accident.

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There was a serious incident on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in New Bern on Friday, involving four vehicles.

According to New Bern Police investigating Officer Bill Zerby, an unnamed 2-to-3-year-old girl looked to be badly injured, bleeding from the head, but still breathing.

She was taken together with her father to Carolina East Medical Center and later transported to Greenville Vidant Medical Center which is the nearest trauma center and the hospital of choice for head injury cases.

It is not know exactly what happened at the accident, which occurred at the intersection of Lowe’s Boulevard and the MLK.  A Volvo station wagon was stopped first in line at a red light and was pushed from behind twice, at least 10 feet into the intersection. The driver, Dr. Bruce King was unhurt

One impact to the Volvo was a black Dodge SUV being driven by Tammie Johnson, who was also stopped at the light, and the other impact, on the side was by a 1983 model white and cloth-topped sedan driven by the injured child’s father.

Police later said the accident appeared to have been caused by a black Pathfinder failing to yield right-of-way.

Johnson and the female driver of the Pathfinder were transported by ambulance to Carolina East Medical Center, in New Bern.

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According to a Greenville Health System spokesman, a champion Paralympian from the Czech Republic is in serious condition after he and another athlete collided during a race on Sunday,.

Jiri Jezek, 39, crashed less than 200 meters from the finish line during the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Greenville. He was taken to GHS Greenville Memorial Hospital Sunday afternoon, where he underwent surgery.

Louis Barbeau, UCI technical delegate, said that he was alert and talking after his surgery and that he was one of the most experienced para-cyclists in the world. He has participated in four Paralympic games and medaled each time.

Jezek lost his right leg below the knee in a car accident when he was 11. By the age of 20, he had taken up competitive cycling as a hobby.

He is now scheduled to have surgery Tuesday on his arm. However it is not certain when he’ll return home or to cycling.

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According to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, a Greenville County deputy was involved in a deadly pedestrian accident.

South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers said that the accident happened at 5:36 a.m. on Thursday on Augusta Road at Old Augusta Road south of Interstate 85.

Johnny Melvin Crouch, aged 65, was trying to cross the road to get to a city bus stop when he was struck by multiple vehicles. Troopers went on to say that after Crouch was hit by the Deputy, there was then another accident involving two other vehicles.

It does not appear that the deputy was responding to a call at the time of the accident and the Highway Patrol has been called in to investigate, which is standard with any deputy-involved collision. Meanwhile the deputy has been placed on administrative leave and the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office Professional Standards Unit is also conducting an internal investigation to determine if there were any policy violations.

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Early Monday morning on I-26, a man from Greenville died after a tire on his vehicle had a blow out.

According to officials the accident happened at around 3 a.m. near mile marker 156 on the interstate. Allen was one of six people traveling west in the vehicle when the tire blew. Following the blow out, the driver lost control and, according to Lance Cpl. Judd Jones, with the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the vehicle ran off the left side of the road.

Orangeburg County Deputy Coroner Sean Fogle said that Theron M. Allen, 32, who was ejected from the vehicle, died at the scene.

A 14-year-old and a 19-year old passenger were also ejected. The 14-year old was flown to Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia along with a 9-year-old passenger who was injured although not ejected. Two 19-year-olds, including the one who was also thrown from the vehicle, were taken to the Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg.

Jones said that al had serious but non-life-threatening injuries. He went on to say that the driver of the vehicle was wearing a seatbelt and suffered only minor injuries.

The interstate was blocked for two hours during the incident and the SC Highway Patrol continues to investigate it.

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At 1.30 a.m. July 25 a train carrying millions of gallons of ethanol derailed near Spartanburg.

The train was pulling 90 black tank cars filled with about two million gallons of ethanol, more than enough to fill three Olympic-sized swimming pools. Fortunately although the tankers landed upside down, the train was moving slowly and none of the cars punctured.

The wreck has highlighted a safety debate that’s arisen as the amount of crude oil and ethanol the nation transports by rail has increased dramatically with the energy boom.

Transportation safety officials say that trains are transporting higher amounts of crude oil and ethanol on trains that can stretch up to a mile long. They say that the tank cars are not thick enough to prevent punctures and spills when they are involved in accidents, and that the trains are driving too fast through urban areas.

Last July, a train operator didn’t brake enough when a 72-car oil train took a curve in the Quebec city of Lac Megantic, leading to the derailment of the train and a massive explosion which killed 47 people and destroyed the village center.

Trains carrying large quantities of ethanol travel through cities and towns in the Upstate more than 150 times every year, through the heart of Spartanburg and Greenville and through smaller towns like Williamston and Pelzer.

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A grandfather and his grandson have both been killed in an accident which occurred on Sunday afternoon in the 1200 block of North Main Street and which is currently being investigated by Sumter County deputies

Sumter Coroner Havrin Bullock has confirmed that two people died and six were injured in the crash when a 1997 Lincoln Town car crossed the white line and hit a 2003 Ford Expedition.

Both occupants in the Lincoln died at the scene, even though they were wearing seatbelts, and they were 65-year-old Ronald W. Holmes and his 7-year-old grandson, as yet unnamed.

All six passengers in the Ford Expedition were also wearing seatbelts and all were injured. Some were taken to Tuorney Regional Medical Center and others who were more seriously injured were airlifted.

On Monday afternoon, Bullock announced that the blood-alcohol level of Ronald Holmes was nearly three times the legal limit to drive when the accident happened.

So far no charges have been filed but the South Carolina Highway Patrol continues to investigate.

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Michael Sivak, a researcher at the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute, has analyzed federal traffic data, and found a wide difference in the fatality rates due to traffic accidents across the different U.S. states.

Motorists in Massachusetts and Washington DC have the lowest chance of dying in a traffic accident whereas drivers in West Virginia, South Carolina and North Dakota, have the highest.

Sivak looked at the data in two ways; deaths per distance driven and relative to the state population..

In terms of distance, West Virginia has the highest fatality rate in the nation, with 17.63 deaths per billion vehicle miles traveled, more than four times the rate of deaths found in the District of Columbia, where there are only 4.2 deaths per billion vehicle miles traveled. The national average is 11.3 fatalities per billion vehicle miles traveled.

In terms of death per population, Washington DC has a fatality rate of 2.37 per 100,000 people whereas the worst state is North Dakota, where people are more than 10 times more likely to die, with a per-100,000-population rate of 24.3. The national average is 10.69 deaths per 100,000.

Overall, residents of the Northern Plains states and South have the worst fatality rates with Oklahoma, Mississippi, North Dakota, West Virginia, South Carolina and Montana all ranked in the bottom 10 on both lists.

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The new Fire Chief of the year from the South Carolina State Association of Fire Chiefs is Easley fire chief Butch Womack.

Womack is no stranger to awards, having won widespread recognition for his work and since he was appointed chief in 1993, as well as state and national awards, he has served as president of both the S.C. State Association of Fire Chiefs and as president of the South Carolina Firefighters Association.

Over the years, Womack and his team of fellow firefighters have helped a lot of people. These days firefighters don’t just fight fires, they can cover everything from a house fire to extracting someone from a car at the scene of an accident or responding to a carbon monoxide threat.

Womack does admit to lots of scary moments, not only for him but for the team, and says he always worries who will go into a fire and who will come back out.

He says that he knew the moment he joined the Easley Fire Department in 1984 that that was where he would stay for the rest of his life, but he had no idea that his path would include becoming chief let alone win so many awards.

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At 6.25 a.m. on Wednesday on Hammett Bridge Road, in front of Riverside Middle School, three teens were involved in a tragic accident.

Firefighters were called to the vehicle which burst into flames and meanwhile bystanders helped the driver and rear seat passenger out of the car. The front seat passenger was trapped inside and died at the scene although the cause of death was chest trauma rather than the blaze. He was named as 17 year old Aaron Jeffrey Al-Rawi Jones, of Taylors.

Meanwhile the driver, Andrew Chase Jackson, aged 16 and from Greer was taken to hospital where he also died.  The third person was flown to the August Burn Center in Georgia.

According to Lt. Jim Holcombe from Greer police, Jackson did not have a driver’s license or a learner’s permit and the car was travelling at between 70 and 80 mph in a 35 mph area. He had no idea how Jackson obtained the car but he did say it had not been reported stolen.

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